The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-10
LABOR MATTERS.
Business Fully Resumed at New York-What
/ the Strike Has Cost the Strikers.


NEW YORK, Feb. Except for the number
OF iongshoremen standing idle on the corners,
the streets along the river fronts have assumed
almost their normal appearance. Though it re-
quires larger number of men to do the work
now than formerly, the steamboat and railroad
pier managers all claim that business is as good
as before the strike, and that freight is being
moved with the utmost facility. Steamers now
leave at the advertised time, and the jam of
freight on the railroad piers no longer exists.
At the Mallory dock and the Clyde-line dock, in
East river, where they are in the habit of clear
ing one or more steamers per day, there has
been decided Improvement At the latter dock
the City of Atlanta came up yesterday, and this
morning she was almost discharged. The pier
master on the Mallory dock said he had seven Of
the strik ers at work, but was unable, however,
to point them out.
Two delegates from the Knights of Labor
met Henry and J. T. Maxwell the representa-
tives Of President Corbin. of the Reading rail-
road. this morning but without arriving at any
| satisfactory results. The question of calling
out the Knights on the Reading road is still
open, aud may be ordered within two days, Mr.
Corbin's offer of a compromise having been re-
| fused. The Knights of Labor insist gen
eral settlement, and intimate that new steps
will soon be- aken to bring it about
The striking lodgshoremen employed by the
| the old terms.
| The Commercial Advertiser says, regarding
the big strike: 1.-The strike of the railroad
| freight-handers in this city week old last
night. The longShoremen quit work on JAM
| q. Both strikes are now admitted, even
| by their projectors. to be failures.
They have not helped the of
| the coal-handlers. nor brought about any
IF Nav 1axyo cip
| interfered with the business of the companies
| against which the movement was directed
There never was a great labor movementin New
York city which failed SO miserably as these
4 strikes At the present time there s. ia
| freight-handlers and longshorem-n idle in New
| York city a result of the strike. Two weeks
ago these men mad steady employment at good
| wages. Most of these laborers will never re-
| gain the places they left at the command of the
| knights of Labor" The Advertiser estimates
the losses in wages to the striking freight hand
lers and longshoremen to date at about $780,
| 600, and says: eff the Iongshoremen were to be
granted, tomorrow, the demand for increase of
wages which they made the pretext of their
| strike. it would take more than four months of
| steady work for them to regain what they have
already lost"
| For two hours, this morning West street,
/ from the Battery to Cortlandt street, was
damned with truck-loads of merchandise On
the Pennsylvania jersey Cen tral & Metropolitan
line to Boston, and the Delaware 81 Lackawanna
| ceivao which had been delayed through the OPP
erations of the strike. The new men are doing
well. The strikers stand around watching them.
Most of them, in conversation, admit that they
would be glad to get back work.
At the Mallory line pier full gangs of men were
working. The superintendent said that he had
| not taken any of the old hands back He said
that seven ty- five old hands were on the corner.
near by. waiting to be asked to go back to work,
| but ne would not take them back. Those who
| We're taken back made individual applications.
| Nearly two hundred were hired.
! Agent Borden, Of the Pennsylvania !ine was
| approached by some beach walkers and asked if
| he would take back union men in case the strike
/ was declared off He refused to recognize the
| union in any way He said the strikers left
| without any grievances, and could never come
| back. He had no Goubt they were willing to
| turn. as many were around in their working
| clothes. apparently ready to take any chance.
| In his opinion. the back bone of the strike was
| broken. At other piers there are plenty of men
at work, and many more asking for places.